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Now then, now then!
Now Then magazine features an article about grouse shooting and raptor persecution in the Peak District. And do remember that you can help the National Trust move rapidly away from intensive moorland management by signing this local petition.
West Pennine Moors SSSI – 2
It’s a rare enough thing these days for new SSSIs to be notified – and now the West Pennine Moors has been notified. Actually, it’s already a day old. Very wittily the document explaining this points out that it is a 7600+ha extension to three existing small SSSIs. Read the documentation and it seems a…
NE issued four Buzzard-killing licences
Natural England, the former independent conservation agency which now spends much too much of its time issuing licences to kill wildlife, has issued four licences this year to kill Buzzards, a native species of predator, because they might be causing serious damage to livestock known as Pheasant poults (a non-native species released into the UK…
Lawyers accuse MoJ of undermining people’s rights to challenge environmental projects
A press release from legal firm Leigh Day: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 NOVEMBER 2016 Lawyers accuse MoJ of undermining people’s rights to challenge environmental projects The Government will publish proposals today (Thursday 17 November 2016) which lawyers claim will seriously restrict the rights of individuals to challenge in the High Court proposals which will…